Bach and Mendel

A Special Symposium in Celebration
of the Centenary of Professor Arthur
Mendel and the Sixtieth Anniversary
of The Bach Reader

Saturday, November 19, 2005

11:30 a.m.—1:00 p. m.

"Music is Something People Do":
Arthur Mendel and the Indispensability of Recorded Music

Woolworth Center for Musical Studies

Teri Noel Towe '70

1:30—2:50 p.m.

Arthur Mendel and the World of J. S. Bach

Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall

Michael Marissen
Daniel Underhill Professor of Music History,
Swarthmore College

Robert L. Marshall, *68
Louis, Frances and Jeffrey Sachar Professor of Music,
Emeritus,
Brandeis University

William H. Scheide '36 H94
Bach scholar

Christoph Wolff
Adams University Professor,
Harvard University

2:50—3:05 p.m.

Break

3:05—4:30 p.m.

The World of Arthur Mendel

Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall

Philip Gossett *70
Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service Professor
of Music,
University of Chicago

Thomas B. Hall *71
Co-Founder, Musicnotes.com

Peter Jeffery *80
William H. Scheide Professor of Music History,
Princeton University

Kenneth Levy *55
William H. Scheide Professor of Music History, Emeritus,
Princeton University

Paula D. Matthews
Director, Mendel Music Library,
Princeton University

Victor Parsonnet P75, P78
Medical Director, The Pacemaker Center, and Director
of Surgical Research, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center;
Chairman of New Jersey Symphony Orchestra

Harold S. Powers *59
William H. Scheide Professor of Music History, Emeritus,
Princeton University

Katherine Rohrer *80
Vice Provost for Academic Programs,
Princeton University

Elaine Sisman *78
Anne Parsons Bender Professor of Music,
Columbia University

8:00 p.m.

Music of Bach in the Princeton University Chapel

Eric D. Plutz, Principal University Organist
Peter Velikonja *04, oboe
Jennifer L. Borghi '02, mezzo soprano
Alexis A. Kende '05, violin

Sunday, November 20, 2005

11:00 a.m.

Worship in the University Chapel
Selections from Cantata BWV No. 70
Princeton University Chapel Choir and Orchestra 

Program subject to change

For further information, please call 609-258-6421, and mention the Bach and Mendel Symposium.

Teri Noel Towe

The Face Of Bach

"Those in charge are odd and ambivalent towards music, which means I have to live with almost non-stop vexation, envy, and persecution."
Johann Sebastian Bach, October 28, 1730